The D Scripting Language

[Pelle Månsson]

On 11/09/2010 06:12 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/7/10 9:12 PM, Eric Poggel wrote:
>> On 11/7/2010 8:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 11/7/10 5:34 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>>> Tomek Sowiñski Wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This wraps up a thread from a few days ago. Pascal featured my D
>>>>> examples
>>>>> on his Scriptometer site.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://rigaux.org/language-study/scripting-language/
>>>>>
>>>>> D comes 17th out of 28, so it's so-so for scripting.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Tomek
>>>>
>>>> When I looked over his scoring from the original post, it seemed> 100
>>>> was a great choice for a scripting language and everything below
>>>> wasn't. D hit where I expected, just good enough to use for scripting.
>>>
>>> Perhaps a module std.scripting could help quite a lot, too.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> I'm having trouble thinking of something that would go in this module
>> that wouldn't be a better fit somewhere else. What do you envision?
>
> I thought of it for a bit, but couldn't come up with anything :o). I
> think you're right!
>
> Someone proposed to add something like
> http://docs.python.org/library/fileinput.html to Phobos. I think it's a
> good idea. We have all mechanics in place (byLine/byChunk, chain). So it
> should be easy to define byLine to accept an array of filenames:
>
> import std.stdio;
> void main(string args[]) {
> getopt(args, ...);
> foreach (line; File.byLine(args[1 .. $]) {
> ...
> }
> }
>
> I hypothetically made byLine a static method inside File to avoid
> confusing beginners (one might think on first read that byLine goes line
> by line through an array of strings).
>
>
> Andrei

module std.script;

public import std.stdio, std.file, std.process, std.algorithm, ... etc

I use at least some of these for most of my programs/scripts. And 
std.all is probably a bit too heavy.

std.script could basically fetch us enough stuff to be on par with 
importless python.